CBA News & Notes
June 9, 2018
Schedules and registration are available for the Mel King Festschrift that CBA is hosting on June 17:
http://cba.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/events/18.06.Mel
for the ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication that CBA is co-hosting June 18-19:
https://scf-acm-org.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/2018
and for FAB14 that CBA is co-hosting across France from July 12-20:
http://fab14.fabevent.org/
All of these will be limited by available space; sign up now if you'd like to attend.
Andreas Mershin presented his group's work on electronic noses for disease detection to Her Majesty The Queen and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5812067/The-Queen-accompanied-Camilla-attend-dog-charitys-10th-anniversary-celebrations.html
VICE on HBO covered the work of CBA and a number of former students on additive fabrication:
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/mbk7xy/watch-the-trailer-for-vice-on-hbos-episode-printing-tomorrow-and-are-we-alone
A CBA team is pleased to have received a Phase 2 award from DARPA's FUN Design program:
https://www.darpa.mil/program/fundamental-design
They're developing engineering design principles based on the role of developmental programs in biological morphogenesis.
CBA patents have issued for transplantation of nucleic acid molecules:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9834747B2
and for ultrathin catalyst layers for photoelectrodes:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9920438B2
Thrasyvoulos Karydis and Joseph Jacobson write on predicting protein structure:
http://www.cell.com/biophysj/abstract/S0006-3495(17)31477-7
Neil Gershenfeld with his brothers Joel and Alan write on the political implications of digital fabrication:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/17/soon-youll-be-able-to-make-anything-itll-change-politics-forever-217999
Sherry Lassiter was profiled:
http://evolution.skf.com/the-fabulous-sherry-lassiter/
Here's a compelling story on the impact of fab labs:
http://thehill.com/opinion/education/381433-after-decades-in-traditional-education-an-educator-finds-a-better-solution
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